A Matter of Wife and Love by Mila

Chapter 169

“Mr. Dillon, Elie.” Julia and Samuel rushed over.

Unable to catch her breath, Julia quickly grabbed the two. “What happened to Bria? How did she suddenly disappear?”

Before they could even respond, she turned around and noticed Leo. Her eyes widened in surprise, and she sounded hostile as she snarled, “What are you doing here, Leo? Is Bria’s disappearance connected to you in any way? Elie has already divorced you. What more do you want? Give Bria back to her!”

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With that, Amelie was on the verge of physically attacking Leo, but Samuel quickly stepped in, grabbing her by the waist and pulling her back.

At this point, Julia was fuming so hard that she kicked her feet in frustration. “Why can’t I teach him a lesson? What’s your relationship with him? This sc’mbag keeps hurting Elie, so I must fight him to death. You must be in cahoots with him since you’re stopping me!”

Julia was so angry that she spoke recklessly. Samuel also knew that she was emotional and could only try to persuade her by saying. “The most important thing right now is finding Bria. We can talk about everything else later, okay?”

After hearing those words, Julia finally calmed down and looked at Amelie. Her eyes were filled with deep worry as tears welled up. “What exactly happened to Bria?”

Amelie explained the situation again.

While furrowing his brows, Samuel asked, “You’re saying that she was sent to the hospital because of a mild case of food poisoning?”

Amelie nodded her head silently. His lips were pressed into a thin line as a wave of self-blame

filled her heart.

“It’s my fault for not taking good care of her,” Steven said regretfully as well. “If I had been more careful, this wouldn’t have happened.”

“This is not the time for self-blame,” Samuel chimed in. “Why don’t we think carefully about what happened before she felt unwell? Don’t overlook any small details, no matter how insignificant they may seem.”

He was a detective by trade and had a vast network of highly skilled detectives at his disposal. In the city, he was well-known for being the best in this industry.

who was standing nearby, perked up his ears. At the same time,

looked at Steven again. “Dad, what were you

thought it was you and went to answer the door. However, she quickly came back saying that the courier had the wrong

it, and I think it’s just a coincidence.” He hunched his back and rubbed the back of his head as

a coincidence, we should look

such, Amelie pushed Steven toward Julia and instructed, “Please watch over my dad. I’m going with Samuel to

to support Steven. “Mr. Dillon, let’s go inside and sit down. With

slow movements might impede

and Samuel exchanged glances and

retreating figures with

in no time, he and Amelie arrived

up the surveillance footage on her computer. She looked up and noticed

with utmost concentration. The suspect was an expert, having taken great care to cover themselves entirely and even using a large box to

to hide, the more

mouse and froze the image on

at the screen,

a closer look. In the dim and unclear image, the courier’s hand was clutching a small bottle, which

recognition, he slammed his hand down and declared, “Whatever was in that bottle

couldn’t believe the audacity of the courier

also activated his information platform and sent out

courier’s picture.

was time

than half an hour, the courier was caught.

anybody to speak, Leo charged forward at an almost imperceptible speed and booted the courier to the ground with

he stepped on the man’s back with his polished leather shoes. The veins on his neck bulged while his eyes were pitch-black and sharp,

is

he gasped for air. “I swear, I don’t know! I

out.

again with a force that sent the man flying backward like a weightless object. He finally crashed into a pole and curled up on the ground like a shrimp, unable to regain